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Sometimes there are positions that are harder to fill than others, but why? Here are some answers:

“We want one just like the last one.”

It’s not uncommon for a job to evolve over time around a current employee’s skill set.

In the IT realm, there may be a .NET developer that also has additional skills like graphic design and since they had an added bonus on their resume, it may be something you will not find in another .NET developer and therefore, the position can be harder to fill.

Why do you need a CRM system within your organization? Well, to start, CRM first stands for Customer Relationship Management, which is exactly what it does. A CRM tool is intended to help track interactions with current and future customers for the entire company.

The article “Understanding the Four Levels of Delegation When Managing People in Business,” by Rory J. McLaren-Jackson caught my eye as a kind of formula for getting delegation decisions right. Upon further reading, the article opens the door for discussion and how this relates to the APM (Agile Project Manager). Agile teams are empowered and as such are granted authority within the bounds of an overall project scope.

Microsoft is currently positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, x86 Server Virtualization, Enterprise Application Platform as a Service and Public Cloud Storage Services.* Only Microsoft has achieved recognition as a Leader across all four capability areas. This in turn validates their strategy to enable the power of choice as we deliver industry-leading infrastructure services, platform services and hybrid solutions.

Helping people see and understand their data drives everything Tableau does. Put together an Academy Award-winning professor, a brilliant computer scientist at the world's most prestigious university and a savvy business leader with a passion for data. Add in one of the most challenging problems in software - making databases and spreadsheets understandable to ordinary people, and what are the results? You have just recreated the fundamental ingredients for Tableau's products. At Tableau, they are continually growing and building their technologies for the future.

Have you ever hired what you thought was the perfect candidate and then find out that person lied on their resume after it was too late? This is an ever-increasing trend that has been a major problem that many businesses face each day. Hiring the wrong staff is one of the biggest challenges a start-up venture or really any company for that matter can face. A poll conducted by Harris Poll alongside CareerBuilder found that 60 percent of hiring managers have caught people lying on their resumes and it’s only getting worse.

The article by Chris Moody “That’s Not Agile” caught my attention. There has been a lot of discussion in blog-land in this area. Chris hits the nail right on the head and fires back with a suspicion that those making such a statement “that’s not agile” may not be well versed in the subtleties of agile methodology.

Recently I was working on a project that included a grid with large amounts of data. This grid not only displayed data but also allowed the user to edit, and the saving process contains a lot of validation and behind-the-scenes adjustments to data, so the usual knockout binding wasn't always enough. In many cases, when the user updated a particular field, we wanted to default/disable/show/hide other fields within the same row. To help with this, we ended up using a custom binding handler that would add an attribute to each field with the index of the object in the observableArray.

Microsoft Social Listening is a powerful new service that your organization can use to monitor social media channels like Facebook and Twitter. Whether integrated into your customer relationship management (CRM) solution or into a stand-alone one, Microsoft makes it easy to make social part of everything you do.

We deliver the complete integration and development of sales, marketing and customer service technologies. TopLine Strategies’ project management is designed to achieve 100 percent user adoption of the technologies implemented, and deliver measurable returns on investment for clients.

Whether our clients are searching for an expert firm to analyze and execute a critical project, employees to augment an information technology team or contractors to assist with technology needs, we deliver on-time, cost-effective solutions that optimize client results. Over the years, our methods have remained the same: establish long-term relationships, assess requirements, research and analyze options, recommend appropriate solutions, implement, integrate and optimize performance.

We deliver the complete integration and development of sales, marketing and customer service technologies. TopLine Strategies’ project management is designed to achieve 100 percent user adoption of the technologies implemented, and deliver measurable returns on investment for clients.

Whether our clients are searching for an expert firm to analyze and execute a critical project, employees to augment an information technology team or contractors to assist with technology needs, we deliver on-time, cost-effective solutions that optimize client results. Over the years, our methods have remained the same: establish long-term relationships, assess requirements, research and analyze options, recommend appropriate solutions, implement, integrate and optimize performance.